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Re: [PATCH] glob: add shopt globmtimesort to sort globs by mtime
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Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev |
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Re: [PATCH] glob: add shopt globmtimesort to sort globs by mtime |
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Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:42:34 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 09:33 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
> i d be all for changeable glob s appearing
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by chance integrate into loops expansion of array vars .. not just file
globs ..
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 02:40 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
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>> On 10/3/22 2:56 PM, Evan Gates wrote:
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>> > There is currently no good way to sort files by mtime in the shell.
>> > It's possible to do so with an ls that supports -t, but parsing ls is
>> > problematic.
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>> Thanks for the patch. There are some good things here, usable stuff, but I
>> think I'll look at a more general approach for the next version.
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>> Chet
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>> --
>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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